Mark Z. Barabak

Sen. John McCain has shuffled his top advisers after months of hand-wringing among Republican political operatives over his presidential campaign's focus. Senior adviser Steve Schmidt, who had been traveling with...

California vaulted ahead of most other states in the national scramble to choose presidential candidates ever earlier in 2008 as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law Thursday moving the primary...

Bill Simon dropped out of the race for governor Saturday, saying there were too many Republicans on the ballot and he didn't want to jeopardize the party's opportunity to replace...